MODOC LUMBER COMPANY
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Klamath County - Ewauna Lake
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April 5, 1949: "Operations of Finney Logging company, incorporated, were moved this week from the Seven Mile area and Modoc Lumber company, successful bidder on 39 million foot-unit, will take over.
The contract on the Seven Mile unit was terminated by mutual consent of Finney and Modoc Lumber company as of March 31, it was announced today by Ivan Kesterson, general manager of Klamath Basin Pine Mills corporation.
Finney, subsidiary of Klamath Basin Pine mills, is moving all its equipment to Bieber, Calif., where it operates a large logging camp from which it supplies logs to Klamath Basin Pine here.
The Modoc Lumber company bid the Seven Miles forest logging unit last June 8, and of the 80 million feet in the unit, 50 per cent is Ponderosa pine, the remaining 50 per cent other species.
At the time of the bid, Modoc paid $20.25 for the Ponderosa.
Finney has been logging on the Seven Mile since last July.
The camp, which accommodates 40 men and a few families, is located five miles west of Fort Klamath at the Seven Mile guard station.
Bud Larson, Finney logging superintendent for the past three years, will be retained by Modoc at this time, it is understood." (Herald and News)
The contract on the Seven Mile unit was terminated by mutual consent of Finney and Modoc Lumber company as of March 31, it was announced today by Ivan Kesterson, general manager of Klamath Basin Pine Mills corporation.
Finney, subsidiary of Klamath Basin Pine mills, is moving all its equipment to Bieber, Calif., where it operates a large logging camp from which it supplies logs to Klamath Basin Pine here.
The Modoc Lumber company bid the Seven Miles forest logging unit last June 8, and of the 80 million feet in the unit, 50 per cent is Ponderosa pine, the remaining 50 per cent other species.
At the time of the bid, Modoc paid $20.25 for the Ponderosa.
Finney has been logging on the Seven Mile since last July.
The camp, which accommodates 40 men and a few families, is located five miles west of Fort Klamath at the Seven Mile guard station.
Bud Larson, Finney logging superintendent for the past three years, will be retained by Modoc at this time, it is understood." (Herald and News)
August 16, 1949: "Fort Klamath, Aug. 16 -- George Cleveland, local representative of the U. S. Forest Service started marking timber Monday afternoon on the Seven Mile division stand of timber owned by the Modoc Lumber company of Klamath Falls, in preparation for a crew of four sets of fallers to commence cutting this morning.
Harry Lewis, formerly with the Finney Logging company, incorporated, in its Seven Mile division operations, is in charge of the fallers.
Logging of the ten million feet of timber has been contracted from the Modoc Lumber company by J. W. Fisher of Klamath Falls, who is at present finishing up a logging contract on the Greensprings, and expects to move his equipment here soon in order to start hauling about August 27.
Early this spring, the Finney Logging company sold out to the Modoc Lumber company and since that time there has been no logging in the Seven Mile area until this week. Mr. and Mrs. Olaf Erickson have been staying at the logging camp, where Erickson has been employed as camp watchman and also in piling brush in the woods. Houses at the camp are being rented by the Modoc Lumber company to employes of J. W. Fisher.
Fisher and his brothers, Carl, Leland and Thomas, are well known in logging circles in this are and logged in this vicinity previously." (Herald and News)
Harry Lewis, formerly with the Finney Logging company, incorporated, in its Seven Mile division operations, is in charge of the fallers.
Logging of the ten million feet of timber has been contracted from the Modoc Lumber company by J. W. Fisher of Klamath Falls, who is at present finishing up a logging contract on the Greensprings, and expects to move his equipment here soon in order to start hauling about August 27.
Early this spring, the Finney Logging company sold out to the Modoc Lumber company and since that time there has been no logging in the Seven Mile area until this week. Mr. and Mrs. Olaf Erickson have been staying at the logging camp, where Erickson has been employed as camp watchman and also in piling brush in the woods. Houses at the camp are being rented by the Modoc Lumber company to employes of J. W. Fisher.
Fisher and his brothers, Carl, Leland and Thomas, are well known in logging circles in this are and logged in this vicinity previously." (Herald and News)
December 29, 1949: "The Modoc Lumber company of Klamath Falls suspended logging operations for the season this week on the Seven Mile division of forest service timber west of here (Fort Klamath), where J. W. Fisher, logging contractor of Klamath Falls, has been busy with his crew for the past several months cutting and hauling logs to Klamath Falls. Plans for cutting snags in the area were cancelled and logging halted until spring." (Herald and News)
March 22, 1950: "A crew of six men started on Wednesday, March 15, falling timber for Harry Lewis, foreman of the cutting crew for J. W. Fisher, logging contractor of Klamath Falls, who expects to start full logging operations on April 1 at the Seven Mile division west of Fort Klamath, for the Modoc Lumber company of Klamath Falls.
Two members of the falling crew, Bruce Mayes and W. Dayberry, had bad luck the first day of work when a tree which had been cut by two other men fell on their power saw, completely demolishing it. Luckily, the two men scrambled out of the way of the falling tree in time to prevent possible serious injury to one or both of them. As it was, they were scraped by branches of the tree as it hit the ground." (Herald and News)
Two members of the falling crew, Bruce Mayes and W. Dayberry, had bad luck the first day of work when a tree which had been cut by two other men fell on their power saw, completely demolishing it. Luckily, the two men scrambled out of the way of the falling tree in time to prevent possible serious injury to one or both of them. As it was, they were scraped by branches of the tree as it hit the ground." (Herald and News)
April 8, 1950: "J. W. Fisher started the log haul to Klamath Falls on Monday, with five trucks taking logs from the Modoc Lumber company's Seven Mile division west of here. A crew of fallers has been working for the past two weeks cutting timber, with Harry Lewis in charge of the men.
J. W. Fisher of Klamath Falls has the contract for logging and hauling for the Modoc Lumber company this week seeing the resumption of logging which shut down last fall.
Work by Fisher will be temporarily discontinue at Seven Mile this week, when the crew and equipment will move to Chinchalo, where they will cut and haul several million feet of logs. This will take an estimated three weeks to complete, when the crew will again start work at Seven Mile for the rest of the season.
On the first day of work, one of the logging crew, Tony Ortis, of Chiloquin, sustained a severe back injury while driving a caterpillar in the woods. He was brought in to Fort Klamath by F. D. Knox, an employe of Fisher, and from here was taken to Klamath Falls by Leonard Smith. He is receiving medical care at Klamath Valley hospital." (Herald and News)
J. W. Fisher of Klamath Falls has the contract for logging and hauling for the Modoc Lumber company this week seeing the resumption of logging which shut down last fall.
Work by Fisher will be temporarily discontinue at Seven Mile this week, when the crew and equipment will move to Chinchalo, where they will cut and haul several million feet of logs. This will take an estimated three weeks to complete, when the crew will again start work at Seven Mile for the rest of the season.
On the first day of work, one of the logging crew, Tony Ortis, of Chiloquin, sustained a severe back injury while driving a caterpillar in the woods. He was brought in to Fort Klamath by F. D. Knox, an employe of Fisher, and from here was taken to Klamath Falls by Leonard Smith. He is receiving medical care at Klamath Valley hospital." (Herald and News)
August 18, 1950: "A Modoc Lumber company employe, Jim Young, suffered a fractured right wrist and ankle earlier this week at work and is hospitalized at Klamath Valley." (Herald and News)
November 30, 1950: "After closing down logging operations for the season, the Modoc Lumber Co. of Klamath Falls decided last week to cut another approximate two and a half million feet of timber at the Seven-Mile division west of here (Fort Klamath). Three sets of fallers, a crew of six men, have been working in the woods since last week, taking advantage of the mild, spring-like weather prevailing, and the logs will be hauled by truck to Klamath Falls this week by drivers employed by J. W. Fisher, logging contractor of Klamath Falls, who loads and transports the cut logs. The fallers are in charge of Harry Lewis." (Herald and News)
September 24, 1954: "Shortly after 10 p.m. the city fire department was called to the banks of Lake Ewauna where the old Ewauna Box Company fuel bin was burning.
Again huge piles of lumber estimated at 1 million feet were stacked nearby. Suburban, OTI and the city firemen fought this blaze until after 3 o'clock this morning.
The old fuel bin, unused since the Hercules Powder Company moved from here, was to have been torn down in a few days, according to Sverre Munson, superintendent for Modoc Lumber Company. No insurance was carried on the building, he stated." (Herald and News)
Again huge piles of lumber estimated at 1 million feet were stacked nearby. Suburban, OTI and the city firemen fought this blaze until after 3 o'clock this morning.
The old fuel bin, unused since the Hercules Powder Company moved from here, was to have been torn down in a few days, according to Sverre Munson, superintendent for Modoc Lumber Company. No insurance was carried on the building, he stated." (Herald and News)
August 5, 1959: "More jobs and more profits will accrue to the community with the installation of a barker and chipper at Modoc Lumber Company. The output of the new equipment which comes from debarked whole logs will be sold to Weyerhaeuser Timber Company's Klamath Falls operation for the manufacture of hardboard.
'The chipper means better utilization of raw material,' explained Laurence Shaw, president of the Modoc Lumber Company, .because many types of defects found in logs, while tending to downgrade lumber, has no detrimental effect on chips.
Hardboard, manufactured and sold by Weyerhaeuser under the name Weytex, is produced in sheets of pressed wood fiber and is used for a variety of purposes, including furniture making and upholstery backing in automobiles." (Herald and News)
'The chipper means better utilization of raw material,' explained Laurence Shaw, president of the Modoc Lumber Company, .because many types of defects found in logs, while tending to downgrade lumber, has no detrimental effect on chips.
Hardboard, manufactured and sold by Weyerhaeuser under the name Weytex, is produced in sheets of pressed wood fiber and is used for a variety of purposes, including furniture making and upholstery backing in automobiles." (Herald and News)
July 17, 1961: "A huge pile of tires and some bark and other refuse lumber piled up by the Modoc Lumber Company was consumed. Flames also burned part of the floor of a storage building of the Modoc Lumber Company south of the Ellingson Mill." (Herald and News)
November 17, 1963: "Modoc Lumber Company is completing plans for the creation of an industrial park fronting on two sides of Lake Ewauna.
Modoc has two strips of land, one on either side of the lake, comprising a total of about 90 acres.
The land includes original Modoc property and property purchased from Ellingson Lumber Company and the Hercules Powder Company.
Modoc is now negotiating with several firms to establish plants in the area and has offered to build and lease plant space to these firms on a long term basis.
Arrangements for the industrial park are being handled by realtor James Stilwell, who said Modoc hopes to have several smaller firms locate in the park rather than one or two large firms, so as to provide more stable employment.
He pointed out that representatives of several firms have been impressed with the attributes of the industrial park area --- namely transportation from two railroad and adequate water.
Plans call for the removal of the vacant Ellingson mill and the leveling of the whole area. About half of the eastern strip of land will be used for the future expansion of Modoc's operations and the rest will be available for the plants of other firms.
The strip across the lake is bounded on one side by the lake and the other by Highway 97 and is presently leased for farming.
Stilwell said this area will be kept open until the other areas are filled with plants.
He mentioned that part of the eastern property might be utilized for an office building." (Herald and News)
Modoc has two strips of land, one on either side of the lake, comprising a total of about 90 acres.
The land includes original Modoc property and property purchased from Ellingson Lumber Company and the Hercules Powder Company.
Modoc is now negotiating with several firms to establish plants in the area and has offered to build and lease plant space to these firms on a long term basis.
Arrangements for the industrial park are being handled by realtor James Stilwell, who said Modoc hopes to have several smaller firms locate in the park rather than one or two large firms, so as to provide more stable employment.
He pointed out that representatives of several firms have been impressed with the attributes of the industrial park area --- namely transportation from two railroad and adequate water.
Plans call for the removal of the vacant Ellingson mill and the leveling of the whole area. About half of the eastern strip of land will be used for the future expansion of Modoc's operations and the rest will be available for the plants of other firms.
The strip across the lake is bounded on one side by the lake and the other by Highway 97 and is presently leased for farming.
Stilwell said this area will be kept open until the other areas are filled with plants.
He mentioned that part of the eastern property might be utilized for an office building." (Herald and News)